Smart span prioritization based on ingestion service backpressure

A system comprising:

• a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable program instructions;
• and
• a processing device communicatively coupled to the non-transitory computer-readable medium for executing the computer-executable program instructions, wherein executing the computer-executable program instructions configures the processing device to perform operations comprising:
• identifying, from code of a web application, that the web application comprises an event that is triggered by a user interaction;
• associating the event with a tracer, wherein the tracer is configured to log tracing information based on an execution of a first set of operations caused by the event and to obtain a first measurement of performance of a first span;
• receiving a priority for the first span;
• determining that the priority is outside a priority tolerance;
• and
• identifying the first span as a proxy span based on the determining, wherein identifying the first span as the proxy span causes the tracer to not log information based on the execution of the first set of operations.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable program instructions, wherein when executed by a processing device, the computer-executable program instructions cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:

• identifying, from code of a web application, that the web application comprises an event that is triggered by a user interaction;
• associating the event with a tracer, wherein the tracer is configured to log tracing information based on an execution of a first set of operations caused by the event and to obtain a first measurement of performance of a first span;
• receiving a priority for the first span;
• determining that the priority is outside a priority tolerance;
• and
• identifying the first span as a proxy span based on the determining, wherein identifying the first span as the proxy span causes the tracer to not log information based on the execution of the first set of operations.